I am waiting for insurance clearance and hoping for a December surgery date. I am a teacher and want to get this done over Christmas break. My surgeon said it was most likely going to happen for me. My question is in relation to hospital stay and that first week at home. How did you post op people feel that first week at home? Having the surgery a week before Christmas, I'm trying to gage how Christmas will be. I have a five year old and do not want to take away any of the magic of season. I'm planning to be completely finished with all holiday preps before surgery. Any thoughts and/ opinions on that first week and having a big holiday?

Thank you Sunshine!

Jnygirl,

Good luck. I know everyone is different with pain tolerance and getting back to normal. Hopefully each day it gets better... And one step closer to a way better normal!

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Good luck. I know everyone is different with pain tolerance and getting back to normal. Hopefully each day it gets better... And one step closer to a way better normal!

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Thank you snow it gets better everyday.. I am just not used to be this out of commission!

Jyngirl, that worries me too. I'm only asking Christmas break off of work, so I've got 2 weeks to get it done & get back to regular life. I teach middle school & it does require a lot of energy. Definitely will be planning some low key activities during that first week back to conserve energy. I hope today is fantastic for you!

I am a teaching assistant in grades 2-5, so I'm running constantly. I am having my surgery on December 4th and just tied it in to the Christmas break, so I will not have to resume school until the 7th of January. I'm happy I was able to do this and decided not to worry at all and concentrate on my recovery. Although, I have a significant amount of time off I will only be missing a little more than two weeks of work. I started this process hoping to have the surgery in the summer. Unfortunately, I had insurance hurdles which caused the delay. Fortunately it helps because I met out-of-pocket and deductibles.

I have been through multiple surgeries. Each of them with their own set of circumstances and healing. My biggest problem is handling pain meds. If I take them as prescribed I can't seem to function at all and sleep a majority of the time. On the other hand, once I feel pain I'm miserable until the medication kicks in. It's hard to find the dose that takes the edge off without causing sleepiness all day long. If bearable I will just take tylenol.

Good luck to you on your journey and I hoe soon we will be able to compare notes on the "loser's" bench!

I got a date of December 20. I got cleared at work without having to say too much about why. Nice. I thought I would have to say what kind of surgery, but turns out just saying surgery was good enough. Whew... Now I've got to really get it all together so I can relax at Christmas and heal.